The Last Hurrah!!: The Beauty of Fake

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Fellow seekers the Last Hurrah!! might have a less cassock-heavy MO, but the
Norwegian collective — led by the producer and guitarist HP Gundersen — are
on a similarly cosmic trip with The Beauty of Fake. One 35-minute
suite, it merrily replicates music from around the world — Chinese zither,
Indian ragas and Hawaiian guitar combining with Heidi Goodbye’s engagingly
squeaky vocals. Somewhere between the Incredible String Band and Jim
O’Rourke, it synthesises a set of utterly inauthentic mantras for the modern
world. Out of the wrong comes forth sweetness. Rune